Re: When to switch to Postgres 8.0?

Its all depends on what features you would use in Postgres.
Iam no expert but if you use simple selects/inserts/transactions you
would definitely be ok..
You can probably start looking at differences between 8.0 and 7.4.3 and
then decide.

- Goutam

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> My company has a product in beta which uses Postgres 7.4.3.
> We expect to have a code freeze for our 1.0 product in March
> 2005. I'd really like to use Postgres 8.x in our 1.0 product.
> We're especially looking forward to the background writer and
> tablespaces.
>
> Is the 8.0 release date known?
>
> Suppose 8.0 is released in December or January. Is it a sane
> thing to put 8.0 in a shipping product within the first two
> months of its release? I know that 8.0 is an enormous
> release, but I'm hoping some of the old-timers can
> extrapolate from previous major version upgrades.
>
> Jack Orenstein
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